Plato Lebedev. Photo: Victor Chernov/Russian Look The Velsky District Court of the Arkhangelsk Region decided to stop the proceedings at the request of the ex-head of Menatep Plato Lebedev to mitigate the punishment, Rapsei reports . In the Velsky court, this case was considered for the third time. The first two decisions of the court to mitigate the sentence to Lebedev did not suit both sides of the process and both times were sent for revision by the Arkhangelsk regional court.

Picket on the Marse Field. Photo: Tatyana Nekrasova/VKontakte In St. Petersburg on the Marse Field on Wednesday evening, a mass picket was held in defense of the city clinical hospital No. 31, according to Fontanka.ru. According to police, the action gathered about a thousand people. The organizers announced two thousand participants. The picket agreed with the authorities passed without incident.

Anatoly Marchenko and Larisa Bogoraz. Photo: Memo.ru January 23 marks the 75th anniversary of the birth of Anatoly Marchenko. Anda Sakhav, January 23, 1987: *“Live like everyone else” - these words that have become the title of books told the author throughout his life - some with care and anxiety, others with philistine condemnation or mockery, others with threat and hatred.

Maxim Luzyanin in court. Photo: Andrey Stenin/RIA "Novosti" The Moscow City Court declared a legal sentence to the businessman Maxim Luzyanin, sentenced to 4.5 years in a general regime colony for participating in the action on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. This was reported by RAPSI. Thus, the court rejected the complaint of the defense that asked Luzyanin to appoint a conditional term. The verdict of Luzyanin was passed on November 9, 2012 by the Zamoskvoretsky court.

Maria Alekhina. Photo by Nicky Maksimyuk/Grani.ru The IK-28 prisoners in the Perm Territory continue to threaten Maria Alekhina, who was serving a punishment in this colony for punk-graben in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. 42-year-old Nonna Ivanova and her 35-year-old friend Alena Kochur in an interview with Novaya Gazeta warned that it was better not to increase to Alekhina in the detachment. “She (Alekhina. - Ed.) Is very annoying. No one is as annoyed as she,” Ivanova said.

Mikhail Fedotov. Photo from the site www.newsinfo.ru The head of the Presidential Council under the President Mikhail Fedotov sent an appeal to the Investigative Committee with a request to arrange a meeting of members of the HRC and employees of the department in order to discuss the situation with political prisoners Sergey Krivov, who has been holding a hunger strike for almost a month and a half. According to RIA Novosti, Fedotov made such a statement at a special meeting of the HRC.

Alexey Navalny. Photo by V. Maximyuk/Grani.ru Alexey Navalny begins the campaign against the use of Latin on corruption purposes. “There is such an effective corruption mechanism that Rospil often encounters - the use of Latin in placing the state order,” he wrote on his blog. Thanks to such a trick, only contractors notified by officials can find an ad on the state order website.

State Duma. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The State Duma adopted in the first reading a law that allows the subjects of the Federation to abandon direct governor's elections. According to RIA Novosti, the bill was supported by 403 deputies, 10 were against. According to the new rules, the subjects of the Federation themselves determine the procedure for the election of the head of the region - by direct voting of the population or the decision of the regional parliament.

Sergey Lavrov. Photo from the site www.ilyapitalev.ru Russia intends to seek several books from the Schneerson library, transferred for a while, the American Hasidam. According to RIA Novosti, such a statement made at a press conference the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. "The Hasids, by the way, received several books from this library from this library for temporary use for a couple of months even more than 10 years ago. But they have not yet been returned.

Andrey Kibitov. Photo: lenizdat.ru The St. Petersburg City Hospital No. 31 will not be re-profiled and will remain subordinate to the city, said Andrei Kibitov, spokeswoman for the Governor of the Northern Capital of the Northern Capital Governor of the Northern capital, on Twitter. "The position of the Governor of St. Petersburg at the 31st hospital was extremely concrete - the hospital was, is and will be a city hospital," Kibitov wrote.

Arkady Dvorkovich. Photo by RIA '' News '' The stop of economic reforms in Russia is due to a crisis, and not a poor state administration, said Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich in Davos. According to RIA Novosti, he gave such an explanation in an interview with Davos Today.

Alexey Navalny. Photo by V. Maximyuk/Grani.ru The European Court of Human Rights accepted the complaint of Alexei Navalny about the detention and the subsequent fine for participating in the "festivities" in May 2012, RAPSI reports citing lawyer Konstantin Terekhov. In his complaint, Navalny indicates that he considers the incident to a violation of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly, which is guaranteed by the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

Putin and Medvedev at the Congress "EP" 05/26/2012. Photo of the Kremlin press service Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev considers it impossible to competition between him and the current head of state Vladimir Putin in the presidential election. The head of government said this in an interview with Bloomberg. "I believe that this would be wrong. I think it is impossible. We relate to one political force, why should we compete?" - quotes Medvedev Interfax.

Sergey Polonsky in the Cambodian prison. Frame "Russia 1" The court in Cambodia will soon make a decision in the case of the Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky and two more detention of Russian citizens. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the head of the consular department of the Russian embassy in Cambodia Pavel Seskanov. “The court was not yet. It was decided to conduct a second investigation,” he said.

Picket in defense of GKB No. 31. Photo by K. Agadzhanova (vk.com/bolnitsa31) From 18:00 to 20:00 on the Marse Field, a mass picket will be held in defense of the 31st city hospital in St. Petersburg. As it became known on January 22, the city administration agreed to an increase in the number of participants in the action from 200 to 10 thousand people.